U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts March 18, 1901, Nos. 1232, 1290 (Mifflin v. Dutton)

COLT, Circuit Judge.

In Holmes v. Hurst the supreme court held that the serial publication of “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” in the Atlantic Monthly, a periodical magazine, vitiated a copyright of the whole book subsequently obtained by its author, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In the construction of sections 1 and 4 of the act of February 3, 1831, c.